VIN(i)
3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch.
5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
6 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have risen up from the prey; he stoops, he crouches like a lion; and like a lioness, who can rouse him?
10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
11 "He will tie his donkey to a grapevine, his colt to the best vine. He will wash his clothes in wine, his garments in the blood of grapes.
12 "His eyes are darker than wine. His teeth are whiter than milk.
13 Zebulun shall live at the sea shore. And he shall be a haven for ships, and his border beside Sidon.
14 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.
15 "When he sees that his resting place is good and that the land is pleasant, he will bend his back to the burden and will become a slave laborer.
16 Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.
18 I waited for thy deliverance, the LORD.
19 "Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders. He will strike back at their heels.
20 "Asher's food will be rich. He will provide delicacies fit for a king.
21 "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
22 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
23 The archers have fiercely attacked him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 »His bow stayed steady! His arms remained limber because of the help of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
25 even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
26 »The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the oldest mountains and the riches of the ancient hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the prince among his brothers.
27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”